Françoise Forton (8 July 1957 – 16 January 2022) was a Brazilian actress.
Career
The actress was the daughter of a French father and a Brazilian mother. She began her career as an actress in 1969, making a small contribution to the soap opera ''A Última Valsa''. She then participated in an episode of the series ''A Grande Família'' in 1973, playing Tuco's girlfriend (Luiz Armando Queiroz). It gained more notoriety in television with the soap opera ''
Fogo sobre Terra
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'' in 1974, playing the rebellious Estrada-de-Fogo. Since then, she has been in the cast of several telenovelas, always with important roles.
In 1975, she starred in ''
Cuca Legal
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Yoná Magalhães
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The following year, 1976, she starred in ''
Estúpido Cupido
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'', a novel set in the 1960s. Her character, Maria Tereza, is a dreamy girl who wants to leave Albuquerque to be chosen
Miss Brazil
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. However, her boyfriend João (Ricardo Blat), an aspiring journalist, is extremely jealous and intends to marry her, hindering in her plans. After the end of that soap opera, Françoise spent seven years away from television. In 1983 she transferred to
Rede Bandeirantes
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where she was in the soap opera ''Sabor de Mel'' and the series ''Casa de Irene''.
She returned to
Rede Globo
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in 1988, participating in the soap opera '' Bebê a Bordo'', where she played the sensual Glória, acting alongside
Nicette Bruno
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Personal life
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, Patrícya Travassos and
Tony Ramos
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Ramos has played leading roles in major telenovela productions for more than four decades. Many of his most famous roles share the ch ...
.
In 1989 she played one of the villains of the great success ''
Tieta
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'', giving life to the cold and calculating Helena, wife of Ascânio ( Reginaldo Faria). In 1990 she returned to act in another novel of prime time, in ''
Meu Bem, Meu Mal
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Plot
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'', playing the mysterious Marcela.
In 1992, she played one of the main characters of '' Perigosas Peruas'', the ambitious and dangerous Caroline. In 1993 she participated in ''
Sonho Meu
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''. In 1994 she played the frustrated nurse Clarisse in ''
Quatro por Quatro
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'', of Carlos Lombardi, in which she was in a romantic pair with Rômulo Arantes.
The following year, Françoise won one of the main roles of the soap opera ''
Explode Coração
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'', the first soap opera to be recorded at the newly opened Projac. In the plot she was the great villain Eugênia Avelar, an exquisitely beautiful and cold woman, in love with the protagonist Júlio ( Edson Celulari), who did everything to conquer him.
In 1996 she integrated the cast of the novel '' Anjo de Mim'', giving life to elegant Renata Monterrey, one of the central characters of the plot. In 1997 she returned to prime time in the successful '' Por Amor'', of Manoel Carlos, where she played the futile Meg.
Three years later, 2000, she returned to soap operas in ''
Uga-Uga
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Cast
* Humberto Martins a ...
'', living as hippie Larissa Guerra. In 2001 she participated in '' O Clone'' as secretary Simone. In 2003 she was in '' Kubanacan'' as the futile Concheta. After the end of the soap opera, Françoise joined
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, where she recorded two remakes of Mexican soap operas with important roles, ''
Seus Olhos
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'', in 2004, and ''Os Ricos Também Choram'', in 2005. She then signed a contract with
Rede Record
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where she remained until the year of 2011, during which time she participated in several soap operas and serials of the network, such as ''Cidadão Brasileiro'', ''Luz do Sol'' and '' Ribeirão do Tempo''.
In 2012 she returned to
Rede Globo
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, after a season at
Rede Record
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.
Personal life and death
Forton was of French descent. She lived in
Brasília
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from the age of 5 until she was 17.
She was married to the physicist Ênio Viotti for four years, and from this marriage she had her only son, Guilherme. In 2014, Françoise married theater producer Eduardo Barata.
Forton died in Rio de Janeiro on 16 January 2022, at the age of 64.